I was talking about something around this with someone "IRL" today, except it was about employee protections through laws. He had issues with some staff who were taing advantage of the rules at work in order to do as little work as possible for maximum gain. What ends up happening is, more people do similar and eventually, the laws change so those who actually needed the protection lose it, along with everyone.
It is one of those "this is why we can't have nice things" problems and we see it on Hive all the time, where a minority ruin it for the majority, just because they are lazy pricks.